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Actor: Cherie Currie, Jodie Foster, Kandice Stroh, Marilyn Kagan, Scott BaioBrand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-08-05
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Foxes
Movie Review: SHAKE YOUR BOOTY
Summary: 5 Stars
** spoilers ahead **
This Bad Movie milestone of late '70s cinema is the kind of retro howler that'll make you want to - as Jodie Foster puts it, in the film's very first line of dialogue - "Shake your booty!"
One of those formula movies about a group of gals livin', lovin' and learnin' about life - think Where the Boys Are, Come Fly With Me, Satisfaction and Shag - Foxes follows a clique of San Fernando Valley high school hipsters who, though they're "teenage dopers" from broken or troubled homes, are all nevertheless the usual types found in such flicks: Foster's a trampy brain, Kandice Stroh's a trampy nice girl, Cherie Currie's a trampy bad girl, and Marilyn Kagan's a trampy innocent.
When she isn't saying things like, "I'm no Suzy slut!" Foster is heartbroken over her parents' split and feels things more intensely than her buds - though it's possible it just seems that way because she's the only one of the four Foxes who can act. Speaking about Foster's former beau, Robert Romanus, Kagan opines, "He sure has changed since he got the van," but Foster looks deeper, offering, "He's changed since he got the hair-blower."
So we'll know that these Valley foxes are misunderstood by their folks, moments before Kagan gives a big party, her mother Lois Smith goes bonkers upon hearing that kids prefer scotch to beer. "Maybe Dad and I should go out of town tonight," Smith rages. "Everybody could get real drunk on scotch and have a real sexual time. Your friends, they're all having affairs in junior high school! Dad and I... we experimented. But I always wished that we'd waited." Humiliated, Kagan cries, "You don't understand, I have waited. I'm a virgin!" The shame is too great for Kagan to bear, so she collapses, and her kid sister tells the arriving guests, "Party's off. She's grounded - she's a virgin!"
Kagan then embarks on an affair with older man Randy Quaid, primarily so that the gals can throw a wild party in his bachelor pad. Not surprisingly, the bash soon turns violent - the teens are apparently driven nuts (as you may be too) by hearing Donna Summer sing the Foxes theme, "On the Radio," over and over again. Everyone gets busted by the cops, which is bad news for Currie - her abusive pa is a cop who has her committed - but worse news for Foster, who must listen as her mom, Sally Kellerman, launches into one of the all-time Bad Actings speeches: "I don't like your friends. Are there any nice people left in the world? Maybe the whole bunch of you is sick. You booze, you dope, you sleep with whomever. You look like kids, but you don't act like them. You're short 40 year olds - and you're tough ones." She adds, "Just because they fit you for a diaphragm doesn't make you a woman." Wait, there's more: the real reason she's upset is because Foster and friends are so svelte. "You make me hate my hips," Kellerman wails. "I hate my hips!"
It all ends when Currie breaks out of the institution, and Foster and pal Scott Baio rush to save her from socializing with white-trash druggies who, memorably, toss Baio into a trash bin. But it's Too Late for Currie, who thumbs a ride with drunken, married, middle-class swingers who hit on her. Currie would rather die than have sex with (shudder!) squares, and, thanks to a convenient car crash, she does.
It's not Too Late for Foster, however. She is seen driving off to college in search of a better education and, presumably, better co-stars, directors and scripts.
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